Tracking the past - paleolimnology

Lakes contain huge amount of information in their sediments. Through collecting their sediments we can go back in time and reveal past environmental conditions that are not possible to obtain via contemporary sampling. Paleolimnology, studing of lake sediments, has been popular since about four decades and there have been several studies that have also been conducted in some of the lakes located in Anatolia. Here there is a summary of paleolimnological studies in different parts of Anatolia and brief information about reconstructed past environmental changes since Late Glacial using their lacustrine archives.